Luminarie 2010

This Sunday we went out to Kobe to have dinner with Ulala's family and to see this year's Luminarie. The city of Kobe puts this on every year to commemorate the victims of the Hanshin-Daishhin earthquake 13 years ago that leveled Kobe and killed thousands of people. The even runs for a couple weeks and involves hundreds of thousands of tiny lights arranged in a slightly different pattern every year. It's always crowded but if you go with people and you take it sow and go with the flow, and if you can ignore the multitude of volunteer traffic directors with megaphones (a ubiquity at all Japanese events, unfortunately).it can be quite beautiful. The walk winds through the Kobe streets and ends with the main lit-up center-piece in a park which also contains the earthquake memorial.

Take a look:









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